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Thinking With the Door Open

What I’m Exploring

I’m exploring how thinking changes when it’s treated as a living process rather than a private performance or a finished product.

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Specifically, I’m working at the intersection of:

  • human judgment

  • iterative learning

  • AI as a thinking partner rather than an answer machine

 

This work spans multiple surfaces—designing custom GPTs, coordinating systems of GPTs, working with their output over time, using tools like Notion for persistence, and refining real-world programs like Focus Me Forward. But underneath all of it is one central question:

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What becomes possible when we design for thinking-in-motion

instead of certainty?

Why I’m Doing This in Public

Much of the most meaningful learning I’ve experienced doesn’t arrive fully formed. It arrives as:

  • partial clarity

  • friction

  • surprise

  • revisions I didn’t expect to need

 

Traditionally, that kind of learning stays private until it’s “clean.” But I’m increasingly convinced that this gap—between private sense-making and public sharing—is where many capable people get stuck.

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So instead of waiting for conclusions, I’m experimenting with sharing orientation.

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Not teaching.
Not broadcasting expertise.
Just leaving well-marked notes from the middle of the work.

 

This isn’t about transparency for its own sake. It’s about modeling a way of learning that doesn’t require pretending the thinking is already done.

How I’m Using AI and Tools in This Process

In this exploration, AI is not a shortcut or a substitute for judgment.

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I use ChatGPT—and increasingly, custom GPTs—as:

  • structured thinking partners

  • mirrors for pattern recognition

  • collaborators in language, framing, and system design

 

I design GPTs with specific roles, constraints, and responsibilities, then observe how my thinking changes when I interact with them consistently over time.

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Notion functions as a different kind of space:

  • a place for persistence

  • slow accumulation

  • cross-referencing insights that don’t mature on demand

 

The tools matter—but only insofar as they help me notice how thinking evolves when it’s given continuity, structure, and room to revise.

What These Notes Are—and Are Not

These notes are:

  • working documents

  • snapshots of thinking in progress

  • reflections from inside the process, not above it

 

They are not:

  • polished frameworks (yet)

  • instructions to follow

  • declarations of “best practices”

 

Some notes will zoom out and look at the meta-patterns.
Others will zoom in on specific experiments—what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised me.

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When something feels unresolved, I’ll leave it unresolved on purpose.

How Future Notes Connect Back Here

This page is the anchor.

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Every future note—whether it’s about designing GPT systems, refining a workbook, or rethinking business design—connects back to this central inquiry:

"How do we design environments where thinking can stay alive long enough to become meaningful?"

 

If you’re reading along, you’re not expected to keep up or agree. You’re simply welcome to walk nearby.

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I’m thinking with the door open.

A Gentle Reframe

Most public work rewards certainty.

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This work rewards coherence over time.

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If something here resonates, it’s likely because you’re already doing this kind of thinking quietly—without much language or permission.

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These notes are my way of giving that process a visible shape.

Working Notes from the Studio

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